- 2025-01-04
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MUSIC
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Emily Bowen Releases Debut Album “Hate Me For This”
Danish-America singer-songwriter Emily Bowen released her debut album “Hate Me For This” on January 3, 2025 via OPTUR Records and One Seven Music.
The album comprises 9 songs, produced by Rasmus Søegren.
Emily Bowen said of the album, “'Hate me for this', my debut album. The center of my universe for many years. Surreal is the only word. Actually no there are many words - nauseating, exciting, relieving.”
It is written like a diary containing pages of confessions, truths, pain, laughter, humor and an honest, vulnerable openness to all the first-time experiences of life.
there is also a certain humor and self-irony and not least, a strong sense of empathy in the lyrics and themes that play out.
With a distinct tone, the album manages to offer a diverse range of sounds, from the charming, raucous indie-pop attitude of debut track “Honey”, written about a friend's destructive thoughts and chaotic life, to the nostalgic folk-pop of “Better Days”, the alternative, high-energy of “Room 17”, and album closer “I Love You”.- Especially, these sounds are reflected in her new single “Agnes”, which sounds intuitive and impulsive.
Emily Bowen said of “Agnes”, “I met Agnes a couple summers ago when I was backpacking around Europe. We sat on a couch and talked for three hours - sucked into each other’s worlds in that moment that only the two of us shared and had together. Agnes moved on to Paris, and we’ve been strangers to each other ever since. But I took the moment along with me, bittersweet and beautiful, like the lifelong exercise of being honest with yourself.” -
Emily Bowen was a curious, gifted and unique child who repeatedly broke the bounds of any box she was put in. Her savings were spent on music equipment, and her parents’ home office was turned into a studio, while a mere 14-year-old Emily Bowen decided to knock on the doors of some of Copenhagen’s most legendary music studios
She said, “I have an enormous drive and, if I'm allowed, I can run like a machine. But I've also learned to take my time. When I got my record deal at 18, I had already been working on my music for almost four years. It's also about being able to keep up as a human being, instead of giving in to the time and tempo that the world around you is trying to follow.”
Photo by Mathias Haugaard - source : Apple Music
